What turned you on to Bare Knuckles?

[littleredguitars2]

i had an explorer with an ebony board. it had a good sized brown streak in it and i thought it was really cool actually.



you can sort of see it from the 1st to about the 5th fret

[_tom_]

That's a banging looking explorer!

[Alex]

I mentioned in another thread that Taylor Guitars have now bought an ebony mill in Africa to try to use the wood as sustainably as possible. 

They also want to educate customers to understand that the wood doesn't have to be perfectly jet black to be "good" (although a Les Paul custom would look weird with a more colourful, figured ebony board - mainly due to the big block inlays, I guess)

Yes, I saw that video once as well. I guess while it is a good idea to use all wood, some customers might reject it. I think we're more likely to see more Richlite and baked woods in the future.

[littleredguitars2]

That's a banging looking explorer!

yeah... i miss her. not sure why i sold it.

[Philly Q]

I've got a Warmoth neck with a (Macassar) Ebony fingerboard with multi-coloured streaks in almost perfectly straight lines, it's almost like a rainbow of colours and really beautiful.  These pictures don't quite capture it properly:





 

[littleredguitars2]

I've looked into warmoths ebony necks a bit and I always thought the macassar was really cool

[Kiichi]

Wow...you really have treasures under your bed...that board is insane.

[Telerocker]

Great piece of ebony there, Philly!

[Philly Q]

Believe it or not, I have actually sold off a lot of my Warmoth stuff, in the realisation that I was never going to get round to building anything with it!

But I had to keep that neck, it just looks so good and it's also a 9.5" radius which I prefer to the 10"-16" compound radius.

The problem is deciding what colour body it would suit.  I think with all those colours in the ebony, it might go best with a plain black body so nothing clashes.

[Telerocker]

Or Olympic White with brown tortoise guard.

[PhilKing]

I'd put it with burgandy mist - but then that is one of my favourite custom colours!  It looks really nice,  I've a kingwood fingerboard on a tele from them that has great graining too (though mine is actually a full working guitar  :lol:)

[GuitarIv]

Once upon a time there was a bed. Under it was the Holy Grail of guitar necks waiting to be put to a good use and many adventurous guitarist set out to a long journey to find it. Eventually it ended up on EBay...

[Philly Q]

I'd put it with burgandy mist - but then that is one of my favourite custom colours!  It looks really nice,  I've a kingwood fingerboard on a tele from them that has great graining too (though mine is actually a full working guitar  :lol:)

What is this "working guitar" of which you speak?  :lol:

Burgundy Mist might work, but I'd have to have the neck painted with a matching headstock.  Kingwood is cool, they used to have loads of it a few years ago but you never see it now.

Or Olympic White with brown tortoise guard.

I like that colour scheme a lot (and I may put together a similar guitar!), but the streaks in my ebony board aren't quite how they look in the pictures - as well as orange/brown there are also hints of purple and even a sort of olive green, which wouldn't go with the tortoise.

Once upon a time there was a bed. Under it was the Holy Grail of guitar necks waiting to be put to a good use and many adventurous guitarist set out to a long journey to find it. Eventually it ended up on EBay...

No, this ones not going on eBay.  I actually only have two Warmoth necks left "under the bed" now.

(Lots of bodies, though.....)

[littleredguitars2]

Do you have warmoth "Gibson" body?

[Philly Q]

Do you have warmoth "Gibson" body?

I've got one Les Paul style body, but it's flat-topped swamp ash, drilled for a hardtail Strat bridge - so more like a Tele body in a LP shape.